Model comparison
Gemini 4 Argon vs o4-mini
Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 10 categories and o4-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 40.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 27.1% for Gemini 4 Argon and 0.6% for o4-mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 56.5 | 41.6 |
| Released | 2026-09-30 | 2025-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1550 | 1368 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1678 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 55% | — |
| SciCode | 61.8% | — |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.6% |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 82.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 13,718 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 27.1% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1548 | 1351 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 58.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 9.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 77.6% |
| LMCA | — | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |
Math Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1536 | 1389 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.7% |
| ProofBench | 99% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1553 | 1343 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 18.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 73.5% |
Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 54.4% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1523 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1610 | 1354 |
| LMArena Russian | 1537 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1497 | 1347 |
| LMArena French | — | 1364 |
| LMArena German | — | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1312 |
Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1538 | 1321 |
| IFEval | — | 92.8% |
Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1549 | 1315 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 77.8% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1534 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1531 | 1294 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1557 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 4 Argon better than o4-mini?
Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 4 Argon or o4-mini better for coding?
Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and o4-mini share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.